I haven’t written much about John Durham and his ongoing struggles to gain convictions of even the small fish in the Russia Collusion hoax mounted by the Democrats and cooperating Republicans from late 2015 through the duration of the Trump presidency. I concluded long ago that it’s the 21st century’s version of the post-Civil War “lost cause narrative,” and that Durham’s activities would be strictly limited to going after the small fish like Igor Danchenko, his current target. Durham, no matter how doggedly he tries, would never be allowed by his bosses at the Department of [Corrupted] Justice to get anywhere near to the whales with names like Comey and Strzok and Brennan and Clinton and Biden and Obama.
A couple of months back, Durham was ordered to wrap up his work early next year, which likely means that Danchenko will be the last skin he attempts to hang on the wall. Whether the small-fry operative will actually be convicted of anything at all by a jury inevitably filled with Biden/Clinton/Obama donors is problematic; still, Durham did manage to put one valuable tidbit into the public record during his summation to that jury yesterday in an Alexandria, Virginia federal courthouse.
Here’s an excerpt from a story at National Review by Andrew McCarthy:
Durham was emphatic that in prosecuting Igor Danchenko for alleged lies about his sources for information that ended up in the bogus “Steele dossier,” the special counsel’s office was not defending the bureau. As reported by the Washington Examiner’s Jerry Dunleavy, who is covering the trial, Durham concluded that “the FBI failed here,” observing that it “mishandled the investigation” and that its agents “didn’t do what they should have done.” Durham added that the explanation for the bureau’s appalling performance could be that it is “simply incompetent” or possibly that it was “working in coordination.” He does not appear to have stated with whom the FBI might have worked in coordination; the implication points to the Clinton campaign, which sponsored the dossier — opposition research based on which Hillary Clinton argued that Trump was a Putin puppet.
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Thus does U.S. Attorney Durham confirm what we have all known for 5 long years now: That James Comey’s FBI was the fulcrum around which the entire Russia Collusion hoax revolved.
Ok, well, he only infers it from the evidence at hand in this case, and that’s all he will ever be allowed to do by despicable Attorney General Merrick Garland. Still, there it is, and there it will remain on the public record of this case for all time.
It’s better than nothing, although only by a small margin.
Enjoy your retirement, Mr. Durham. At least you tried.